The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free.

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.

Jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them.

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.

The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.

Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.

If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.

A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language.

... I grant you that anyone who pokes around in history long enough may well go mad.

The truth which has been spoken too late is more damaging than a lie.

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

I have nothing but admiration for the actors on soap operas. It is unbelievably challenging to put out an hour show in one day.

Religion is the first sense of community. Your sense of community occurs by reason of mutual experience with others.

I always knew that Neil Kinnock belonged in the economic nursery. Now, God help us we've got twins.

When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.

There is nothing you can to do make God love you more! There is nothing you can do to make God love you less! His love is Unconditional, Impartial, Everlasting, Infinite, Perfect!

If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.

Please don't take a turn to negative town.